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APPLICATION FILED JAN-23.1915.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN- 23, 1915.

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Be it known that we, Joan S.oRrn and CHARLES BREoHi, citizens of the United States, and residents of Coatesville, county of Chester, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Car Ends, of which the following is a specification.

One object of our invention is to improve the construction, of the metallic ends of rail- Way cars of the box typeso that they will withstand the pressures to which they are subjected.

.A further objectv of the invention is to construct the end from metal plates pressed into shape to form. girders and to reinforce the plates between the girders.

These objects'we attain in the following manner reference being had to the accotn panyingdrawings, in which: i Flgure 1 1s a view 1n elevatlon of a car end illustratlng our invention; Flg. 2 is a plan view; Fig. 3 is a side view; Fig. f is a sectional viewon the line a-a, Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a view in elevation illustrating a modification of the end shown in Fig. 1';

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the end illustrated.

in Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is a side view of the same; Fig. 8 is a sectional plan view on the line 6+2), Fig. 5; and Figs. 9 and 10' are views illustrating difierent modifications of the corrugations of the plates.

In the present instance, the ear end consists of four plates connected on lines radi'at ingfrom a common center below the fioor'of the car and at the point where one plate joinsanother. A rib or beam is formed at 'each joint for strengthening the car end and the plates between the several beams are corrugated for the purpose of strengthening vthe plates. v

Referring in the first instance to Figs. 1 to & inclusive, 1, l are the two plates which form the center of the end of the car and j 2, 2 are the side plates. lhese plates are triangular shape and have short transverse corrugations 3 arranged at a slight angle, preferably at a right angle to the line of division between the center plate and the side plates, as shown. These plates are at the corners where strength and stifiness are required and as the corrugations are comparatively short, the strength of the plates is materially increased. The corner plates are preferably much heavier than the center plates, as it is desirable in cars a series of radial corrugations 4, the center corrugatloi'is of each plate extending substantially the full length thereof and the side corrugations terminating at the points shown. By this construction, the plates are comparatively narrow at the lower portion and, consequently, can be made of light material as they are strengthened by the ribs orbeams where they are narrow and where they are wide, as at the upper end, they do not require so much strength as there is very little pressure, if any, on the end plates of a car at this point. Each meetingedge of each plate has a deep rib 5, extending substantially the full length of the plate on each side tothe meeting edge and forming a strengthening beam and beyond the rib is-a flat edge 6-. The flat edge of. one plate overlaps that of an adjoining plate and the two plates are secured together by; a line of rivets, as shown, and, by preference, these flat portions donot extend to the'fu'll depth of the plate but stop short asuficien't distance so that the inner heads of the rivets will not project beyond the inner surface of the plates, as clearly shown in Fig. 42.

By the above construction, a substantial double beam is formed at each joint and the beams are preferably deeper on the lower half of the plate'than on the upper half, as shown in Fig- 3, thus adding additional strength to the lower half of the car end Where strength is required. Each of these beams is rounded at the lower end so as to more by the bending action than by drawing.

While we have shown the center plates 1 plates 1 and 2 and the edge of one plate overlaps the edge of another and the two portions form the beam, the edges being riveted at this oint. This construction can be employed w ere the radiating beams are single instead of double, as in Fig. 1. In Fig. 9, we-have shown another modification in which asingle rib is illustrated at .the joints and both the center plates and the side plates have radiating corrugations varying in length.

In Fig. 10, we have illustrated still an other modification in which an inclosing rib- 3 extends continuously around each'plate.

in the form of a triangle withintervening ribs 3" in the space within the triangle.

We claim:

1. The combination ofan end plate for a freight car consisting of four sections, the outer sections being wider at the base than at the upper end and the two central sections bein wider at the upper end than at the base, t e central sections being joined by a series of'vertieal rivets and the side sections being oined to the central sections by a series of rivets.-

2. .The combinationof an end plate for a freight carmadel in four sections, the two outer sections being wider at the base than at the upper end and the two central sections being wider at the upper end than at the base, the =sections--being unitedby rows of rivets and each section being reinforced at the joints bylribs pressed up from the plates extendingparallel with the rows of rivets.

3. :An end plate for a freight car made in four sections, each section being substantially the full height of the car, the outer sections being wider at the base than at the upper ends and the two central sections being wider atithe upper ends than at the base, the sections being secured together, the edges of one section lappingover and secured to the edges of another section; and reinforcing ribs struck up from'the plates and extending parallel'withsaid edges, each of said plates having reinforcing ribs extending from side to side of the plate.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification, in the presence Off two subscribin witnesses,

' Q lOHN S.QWORTH. CHARLES BRECHT.

- Witnesses;

'Wmtmar H; BROWN, D. WARREN Weren't. 

